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A Review on Open-Source and Proprietary Software Technologies Practised by Finnish Computer-Engineering Students

Jose Teixeira, A Review on Open-Source and Proprietary Software Technologies Practised by Finnish Computer-Engineering Students. In: Hamadou Saliah-Hassane, Amine Berqia (Eds.), Proceedings of ICEER 2013, 1071, INEER, 2013.

Abstract:

Different higher education institutions take different approaches when teaching software development skills to engineering students. One of the diverging points is the use, or not, of open-source software. Some institutions are teaching our future computer engineers on a base of open-source systems and programming languages freely available on public domain without restrictions to use in education. Others perform partnerships with big software-houses such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP; teaching future computer engineers on a base of proprietary technology. In this paper we address this interesting invariance by performing a systematic content analysis of courses syllabus available to computer-engineering students in an universe of 12 Finnish universities. We identify the open-source and proprietary technologies practised by Finnish computer-engineering students at each course, department, faculty and university. By carefully analysing data we obtained already some interesting geographical patterns on universities teaching of open-source or proprietary technologies. We also show hot universities size impact is correlated with the use, or not, of open-source technologies in computer engineering education. For future, we
outline that crossing the obtained results with governmental databases on employment, entrepreneurship, business venturing and intellectual property; can answer interesting questions on how teaching, or not, open-source technologies can influence the employability and entrepreneurship ambitions of computer-engineering students.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpTeixeira_Jose12c,
  title = {A Review on Open-Source and Proprietary Software Technologies Practised by Finnish Computer-Engineering Students},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ICEER 2013},
  author = {Teixeira, Jose},
  editor = {Saliah-Hassane, Hamadou and Berqia, Amine},
  publisher = {INEER},
  pages = {1071},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Computer-Engineering, Computer-Science, Informatics, Education, Entrepreneurship},
}

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